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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 5, November 29, 1999
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Houseman Appoints PerLorica as North American Distributor
> Pall Sampling Capsule to Test Water for Cryptosporidium
> This Weeks Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Skaperdas, Inc. Buys Phipps & Bird
> We had over 84,000 hits in October!
> Engineering Training Course
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Houseman Appoints PerLorica as North American Distributor
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Houseman Ltd. today announced that it has appointed PerLorica
Inc. as its North American distributor for its PermaCare® line
of PermaTreat® and PermaClean® antiscalants, disinfectants,
and membrane cleaning chemicals. The territory encompasses
the United States, Canada and Mexico. Houseman Ltd., is a 120
year-old manufacturer of advanced water treatment chemicals
with corporate offices in Windsor, England. The Company is
a market leader in Europe and the Middle-East with annual
sales in excess of $150 million. PermaCare, PermaTreat, and
PermaClean are registered trademarks of Houseman Ltd.
"We are very pleased to announce that PerLorica Inc. will be
distributing our reverse osmosis chemicals in North America,"
said Ken Blackburn, Managing Director of Houseman Ltd..
PerLorica is not only extremely well positioned in the
marketplace, but offers the experience, technical know-how
and field engineering support that have long been associated
with our products and their application world-wide," continued
Blackburn.
The PermaTreat® line is a comprehensive range of advanced
antiscalants, used in thousands of installations throughout
the world. PermaTreat® scale inhibitors are engineered using
powerful "Super Threshold" agents to stabilize
supersaturated
salt solutions in the membrane reject concentrate. This allows
reverse osmosis systems to be designed with optimum recovery
rates thereby providing significant economic and performance
advantages over other antiscalants including:
-Less feed water needed
-Less concentrate for disposal
-Less chemicals
-Better environmental acceptance of concentrate discharge
-Lower operating costs
The PermaClean® line includes a broad range of specially
designed membrane cleaning products for the rapid removal
of all types of both organic and inorganic membrane foulants,
including severe biofouling. Also available are PermaClean®
membrane compatible microbiocides and disinfectants to
control and inhibit membrane biofouling. Product information
and specification sheets may be viewed and downloaded at
PerLorica's web site at www.reverseosmosis.com.
Under the terms of the agreement, PerLorica will also provide
a full range of application engineering, field service,
membrane autopsy, and trouble-shooting services in support
of the product line.
"We are extremely pleased to be representing Houseman and
its PermaCare® line of advanced membrane chemicals throughout
North America," stated Scott Jackson, President of PerLorica
Inc. "After evaluating several competitive products for
distribution, the PermaCare® line provides us with a full
range of both antiscalants and membrane cleaners. In addition
to superior performance, the PermaCare® line enables us
to comprehensively service and support our customers,"
added Jackson.
PerLorica, Inc. provides a full range of technical support
and engineering services to owner/operators of membrane
based water treatment systems. The Company's Internet based
process monitoring system (PL-Web™) offers plant owners and
operators with a cost effective, reliable method to
continuously access and interpret important plant, process,
and cost information to achieve greater operating
efficiencies.
For More Information Contact:
PerLorica, Inc.
5401 E. Horseshoe Bend
Clovis, CA 93611
Telephone: 559 323-4384
Fax: 559 299-6233
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Pall Sampling Capsule to Test Water for Cryptosporidium
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Ann Arbor, MI -- Pall Gelman Laboratory's Envirochek sampling
capsule is the only product listed and validated by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Methods 1622 and 1623,
for testing source water for Cryptosporidium. Representatives
for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified
the Envirochek sampling capsule as the only product validated
for use and listed in the collection and concentration step
of Methods 1622 and 1623, at the American Water Works
Association's (AWWA) International Symposium on Waterborne
Pathogens in Milwaukee, WI in August 1999.
Cryptosporidium, a microscopic parasite found in animal and
other organic wastes, is one of several potentially harmful
microbes that can contaminate drinking water. The Safe Drinking
Water Act amendments focus federal research and U.S. EPA
regulatory efforts on standards to detect Cryptosporidium in
drinking water. By requiring improved filtration and monitoring
in water systems serving 60 million people nationwide, the new
standards will prevent up to 460,000 cases of waterborne
illnesses a year.
The Envirochek sampling capsule is designed for the collection
and recovery of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts from
surface water, municipal water supplies, samples in containers,
or wells. This innovative product increases the capture and
recovery of target organisms by up to 15 times. It offers a
simpler and safer procedure for the collection of Cryptosporidium
and Giardia than the traditional string wound filter methods
that it replaces. The Envirochek capsule eliminates contact with
organisms and improves detection results. The self-contained
capsule is safer to use because the filter element does not need
to be handled or cut apart, protecting both the sample and
laboratory personnel.
"Pall Gelman Laboratory is pleased to be working with the U.S.
EPA and regulatory agencies worldwide to help protect the
world's drinking water. We will continue to focus our efforts
on meeting worldwide needs and are extremely optimistic
about the continuing success of the Envirochek capsule for
the effective collection and recovery of this harmful
pathogen,"
noted Larry O'Connell, Senior Vice President of Pall Gelman
Laboratory.
Pall Gelman Laboratory is currently validating the new
Envirochek HV sampling capsule for testing high volumes
of treated water. It contains a new membrane that allows
high volumes (500 liters or more) of treated water to be
processed, while provide consistently high recovery rates
of target organisms. Processing treated water is much
different than surface water because it may contain a number
of elements such as chlorine, coagulants or flocculents,
and often media for softening the water, which have an
effect on the filter performance.
Pall Gelman Laboratory, a subsidiary of Pall Corporation,
develops and manufactures filtration and separation products
used in laboratory research, health care, diagnostic tests,
and industrial applications. Pall Corporation is the world
leader in filtration and separations solutions for the
health care, aeropower, industrial fluid processing, food
and beverage, and microelectronics industries, with nearly
9,000 employees throughout the world, and manufacturing
facilities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, England, Ireland, and
Japan.
For more information contact:
Pall Gelman
Laboratory Technical Service Department
600 South Wagner Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48103-9019, USA
Telephone: (734) 665-0651 or (800) 521-1520 (in the USA)
Fax: (734) 913-6576.
Web site: http://www.pall.com/gelman
mailto:GelmanLab@pall.com
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Industrial
Air Pollution Control Systems"
by William L. Heumann (Editor)
Hard Cover, 560 pages, August 1997
"Sampling
for Analytical Purposes (abridged)"
by Pierre Gy & A. G. Royle (translator)
Hard Cover, 153 pages, July 1998
"Water
Treatment Plant Design"
by ASCE and AWWA
Hard Cover, 1024 pages, 3rd Edition, December 1997
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/readingroom.htm
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Skaperdas, Inc. Buys Phipps & Bird
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Richmond, Va. -- Skaperdas, Inc., a private, Virginia-based
corporation, acquired the assets of Phipps & Bird (P&B) from
the Medical Group of McKesson HBOC, effective February 26.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Richmond-based Phipps & Bird is a manufacturer of products
for municipal water quality and treatment, educational physiology,
durable medical equipment, and original equipment manufacturers.
The company will operate as Phipps & Bird, Inc.
Wes Skaperdas will continue as president and general manager of
the operation. He has been with P&B since 1984 and has served
as general manager since 1986.
Phipps & Bird
1519 Summit Avenue,
Richmond, Virginia 23230
Phone: 804-254-2737
Toll free: 800-955-7621 (USA).
Fax: 804-254-2955
mailto:phippsbird@aol.com
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Engineering Training Course
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As part of Carmagen Engineering's commitment to quality
engineering, our engineers conduct monthly courses in our
New Jersey office. Small classes, emphasizing personal,
effective, maximum learning in short blocks of time.
Presented by our team of expert engineers, we hold two
"course days" a month… see below for December's
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Attendees may sign up for one day or two, depending on their
needs.
December Course Schedule
December 1, 1999
Course 605: Determining Required Storage Tank
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in Accordance with API 650
Course 902: Piping System Stress Analysis
Course 903: Introduction to Process Plant Piping
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Sharpe need help with pharmaceutical wastewater:
I would really appreciate any information regarding techniques
for removing mercury,zinc sulfate,chromic chloride, ammonia,
iso-propanol, and other general organics from a pharmaceutical
effluent stream.
Thank you,
Tim Sharpe
mailto:trs603@bham.ac.uk
Mr. Pardo needs help with a school project:
I am gathering information on the subject of water treatment
for a school project. I'm interested on the themes: - types of
wastes in waters such as chemicals or minerals etc. - types
of treatments with advantages and disadvantages
I thank you for your time, and hope you can help me out.
Jose L. Pardo
mailto:j-pardo@uniandes.edu.co
Mr. Tyle with his water supply:
A certified lab indicated the following test readings for water
treatment: ph6.83, spec. conductance 96.5, CaCO3 68., Iron 0.172,
manganese 0.981, Tanin/lignin<0.1, total dissolved solids 85.
Water tested came from well head. Also,there is no evidence
of coliform organisms.
Should I consider water treatment devices to improve water taste
and mineral deposits in bathroom and laundry? If so, what is the
most economical approach?
Thank you!
L.A. Tyle
mailto:mercantyle@aol.com
Mr. Bennett needs help with wastewater:
I am a young intern attending Boise State University. I also work
full time with the City of Boise in conjunction with CH2M Hill. I
have a variety of different duties and I like what I do; however,
I find that waste water treatment facilities are very complex and
I find myself being lost a good portion of the time. I would like
to read (or talk to someone who can answer my questions) about
wastewater processing and equipment. I spend a good portion of my
time inspecting or finding equipment that I do not have profound
knowledge of.
If someone is available to answer my questions I would be vary
thankful. Not that the engineers around me are not helpful, but I
have a lot of questions and they are very busy.
Thank you,
Tim Bennett
mailto:tbennett@ch2m.com
Mr. Salaam is looking for help with clarifiers:
I am a senior civil engineering student at University of New
Orleans. We are designing a (ground)water treatment plant. I am
having trouble finding design information/criteria pertaining to
flocculator-clarifiers. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Tutashinda Salaam
mailto:tutashinda1@netscape.net
Mr. Walsh wants to dewater sludge:
I have always been looking for new ways to use lime sludge in
South Florida area. Currently using for landfill but will try
to mix with sand to get a compactable material for house pads.
Has anyone tried this?
DRD ENTERPRISES
mailto:LUNARCON@AOL.COM
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